05May2016
​UX Design Toolkit

Merging ever-expansive new technologies into our lives in a way that serves us, rather than frustrating us, is one of the great design challenges of our time.

UX is the process of designing (digital or physical) products that are useful, easy to use, interact with and understand. We chat more about what UX Design is here.

As our Digital Design course here at JMC Academy works a lot to incorporate UX Design into our student’s studies, we have put together a toolbox of great websites and apps that can be very useful in the work of UX Design.

Planning is a key stage in any process, especially design! This tool displays each stage of the UX design process, with links to further information on each process. You can also tick each process to track what you’ve done!

This tools shows your design to people for five seconds. When the time is up they're asked questions about what they remembered. This is great to help you fine tune your landing pages by analysing the most prominent elements of your design.

Principle makes it easy to create animated and interactive user interface designs. Whether you're designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, Principle lets you create designs that look and feel amazing.

Adobe has just released XD, made for fast, fluid UX design with innovative tools that eliminate speed to switch from design to prototype easily. You can quickly create wireframes and visual designs, preview changes in real time, and share prototypes with your team for instant feedback.

When your creativity is having a block, GoodUI helps to prompt with you with a clever collection of patterns and ideas.

The beauty of modern technology, is that there is always something that can help you when designing for The Web, Apps, Spaces and experiences as we focus on in our Digital Design course.

Find out more about studying Digital Design at JMC to develop the skills to work with the design tools to turn your ideas into things that we can not only visualise, touch or hear, but also things we can actively experience.